Admissions: JAMB To Bar Institutions That Fail To Verify Direct Entry Candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will bar institutions that failed to verify the A’Level certificates of Direct Entry (DE) candidates, from being selected on the registration portal for the 2024 admission year.

JAMB said this was to ensure that candidates are not put through undue stress on account of the failure of their institutions to verify their A Level results despite repeated requests.

Recall that the Board introduced the verification measures to help address sharp practices by candidates who intend to use unacceptable or forged A’ level certificates or qualification of the institutions.

JAMB in its Weekly Bulletin on Monday stated that despite the letters and follow-ups made by the Board to institutions to verify the certificates of the candidates, 2,795 candidates are yet to be verified from 155 institutions.

“It is to be noted that candidates applying for Direct Entry admission are expected to select from a list of qualifications the particular qualifying certificates they would be using to seek such admission.

“To prevent institutions from holding to ransom the Board’s admission process, such qualifications from these institutions that refuse to assist the Board in verifying results they had issued, ab initio, would be removed from the list of listed qualifications/institutions be accepted for DE admission.

“Consequently, holders of such delisted qualifications would not be able to use them to apply for DE admission.

“As a policy instituted to check fraud associated with A Level certificate, the Board through Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System (NIPEDs), had been seeking the verification of A’Level results from the issuing institutions before such holders of results are considered for DE admission,” the Board said.

JAMB lamented that some institutions have refused to respond to repeated requests by the Board to confirm the authenticity or otherwise of results issued by them.

“As a consequence, candidates who are holders of A Level certificates of the following institutions need not obtain the DE e-PINS which would soon go on sale as it will be an exercise in futility given that their registration would not be valid,” it said.